Improved submodule merge support

Currently merging submodules from a super module does not work at all, here is an example:

$ git merge change1
Updating 41dee71..6dbd2d9
Fast forward
 sub-module |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

$ git merge change2
fatal: cannot read object 4a0b570e9b7c6fd36f964eb6ef55263834462235 'sub-module'
Merge with strategy recursive failed.

$ git status
# On branch mergetest
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

$ git submodule status
 4a0b570e9b7c6fd36f964eb6ef55263834462235 sub-module (undefined)

So - the merge simply failed, and git status has no clue what happened.

With the following patch, this happens instead:

$ git merge change1
Updating 41dee71..6dbd2d9
Fast forward
 sub-module |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

$ git merge change2
Auto-merged sub-module
CONFLICT (submodule): Merge conflict in sub-module - needs b65e6131a2705620a0b08a4ecc44427b9059e4e3
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

$ git status
sub-module: needs merge
# On branch mergetest
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
#       unmerged:   sub-module
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

$ git submodule status
 11253a619a520fa4b2e2c2f83cb5c897170faafd sub-module (undefined)
 4a0b570e9b7c6fd36f964eb6ef55263834462235 sub-module (undefined)
 b65e6131a2705620a0b08a4ecc44427b9059e4e3 sub-module (undefined)

To resolve this:

$ cd sub-module
$ git merge b65e6131a27
$ cd ..
$ git add sub-module
$ git commit -m 'merged sub-module blablabla'
$ git submodule status
 eb66300641185297648b2a71e41a66b2053fdae0 sub-module (undefined)

So it actually works in some sense, and you see what you need to merge aftwards in the submodule.

- Finn Arne

-- >8 --
Improved submodule merge support

When merging conflicting submodule changes from a supermodule, generate a conflict message saying what went wrong. Also leave the tree in a state where git status shows the conflict, and git submodule status gives the user enough information to do the merge manally. Previously this would just fail.

---
 merge-recursive.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

index 2a58dad..33ccc40 100644
@@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ static void update_file_flags(const unsigned char *sha,
 		void *buf;
 		unsigned long size;
 
+		if (S_ISGITLINK(mode))
+			die("cannot read object %s '%s': It is a submodule!",
+			    sha1_to_hex(sha), path);
+
 		buf = read_sha1_file(sha, &type, &size);
 		if (!buf)
 			die("cannot read object %s '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha), path);

@@ -1463,10 +1467,13 @@ static int process_entry(const char *path, struct stage_data *entry,
 		mfi = merge_file(&o, &a, &b,
 				 branch1, branch2);
 
+		clean_merge = mfi.clean;
 		if (mfi.clean)
 			update_file(1, mfi.sha, mfi.mode, path);
+		else if (S_ISGITLINK(mfi.mode))
+			output(1, "CONFLICT (submodule): Merge conflict in %s "
+			       "- needs %s", path, sha1_to_hex(b.sha1));
 		else {
-			clean_merge = 0;
 			output(1, "CONFLICT (%s): Merge conflict in %s",
 					reason, path);
 

1.5.4.rc0.67.gf9c5

Hi,